As Vice President of Venue Management for Aquatics, Ken is responsible for SFC’s Aquatics Venues nationwide, assisting our clients with operating and optimizing our indoor and outdoor pool facilities and water parks. His broad and successful career has spanned over twenty years of operations, programming, training, marketing, budgeting and forecasting.
Ken has served as an Aquatics Director to municipal and recreational pools, competition pools, country clubs, waterparks and private and public aquatic centers. He has worked with the YMCA® and the American Red Cross® as a Water Safety Instructor, Lifeguard Instructor, and CPR/First Aid Instructor. He is also a Certified Pool Operator® and a certified Aquatics Facility Operator®.
Ken is also an accomplished swim coach having been a certified coach member of USA Swimming® since 1984. Over his 20+ years of coaching age group, senior club swimmers and high school athletes, he has produced multiple Junior Olympic qualifiers and finalists, state champions, junior and senior national qualifiers and college scholarship recipients. Ken maintains close ties to the competitive swimming world as a certified coach with the American Swim Coaches Association®, US Masters® Swimming, and USA Water Polo®.
His vast experience overseeing our aquatics venues provides our clients the operational and programming expertise needed to appropriately serve their members and guests.
Education:
- University of Kentucky – Bachelor of Business Administration
Notable Venues:
- Adventure Cove – Abilene, TX
- Artesia Aquatic Center – Artesia, NM
- Caporella Aquatic Center – Tamarac, FL
- Pelican Bay – Edmond, OK